DEl'AiriMKX'r WKPOKTS ' 33 



KEPOKT OF THE DEPAKTMEXT OF HOKTIOFLTURE AND LAND 



SCAPE OAKDENINC. 



To the J'irsidtitt: 



SiK — Altlioiij^h tlieic has bt'en no iiiLieasL' in I he Avurkiiig force there 

 lias been a coiisidei-able increase in the work that has fallen to the 

 <lci»artment. This has been due to the larger number of elective subjects 

 ihat have been lautihf by the department and the increase in the number 

 of students, as well as 1o a considerable increase in the amount of work 

 l>erformed upon the orounds. 



As the curriculum is now arranged, the required work of the students 

 in this de]»artmen1 begins with the spring term of the sophomore rear. 

 It continues for two terms, occu])ying one hour in the lecture room and 

 iwo and one-half hours of laboratory work each day. During the 

 remaining live terms of the course the work is elective, but for the 

 agricultural students the election lies only between agriculture and 

 horticulture. The class room and much of the laboratory instruction 

 has been under the charge of l*rof. U. P. Hedrick, who presents the 

 following re])ort of his work for the past year: 



"During the fall term the following classes, the number of students 

 in each being given, were under my charge: Agricultural juniors in 

 ]M)mology, o4; women juniors in landscape gardening and tioriculture, 

 15; women seniors in tioriculture, taken as an elective, 10. The agri- 

 cultural seniors, 14 in nund)er, who had elected horticulture the year 

 l»revioiis. were for this year tranferred to the IJotanical Department 

 in order that- they might take a much needed course in physiological 

 botany. Two hours i)er day were si)ent in laboratory work with the 

 juniois in ]»omology. 



"Tlie class-room work during the winter tern) was much lighter than in 

 I he one ])receding, consisting of but two regular classes, namely: Evolu- 

 ti(m of garden plants, taken by 14 seniors, and tioriculture and vegetable 

 forcing, a junior study taken by a class of IS. During this term the 

 writer addressed seven farmers' institutes on horticultural subjects. 



"My work in the sjuing term was as follows: A class of 03 so})lio- 

 mores. men and women, in v<'getalde gardening; a class of 15 juniors in 

 spraying of ]>lants. twice a week; a class of sophomore women and 

 junioi- men in landscape gardening, three times a week; a class of 10 

 juniors in thesis work two hours ]»er day; and seven seniors in thesis 

 W(»!k at such hours as could be found." 



.\s in ]tre\ions years, the work in pomology cousiste«l of lectures 

 an<1 laboratory work. .\ section of the agi-icultural juniors spent two 

 hours each <lay in studying the chai'acterist ics of the different species 

 of fruit in common cultivation and in becoming familiar with the leading- 

 varieties of each. Others were engaged in the routine work of the 

 greenhouse, grounds, orchards and vegetable garden. In the winter 

 term Mr. (Iuns(»n had charge of the lab<»ratory work in the greenhouses 

 of the regular agricultural and women students electing tioriculture. as 



